He gave the example of the birth and evolution of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Our investment in space exploration helped to create our satellite telecommunications network and the Global Positioning System.
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The software can also read the global positioning system (GPS) of a phone to tag a picture.
Satellites support phones, pagers, television broadcasts, Earth observation and the global positioning system.
There is a particular concern about the Global Positioning System (GPS) service.
GPS the global positioning system to select a neighbourhood at random within the town.
She said that US diplomats and scientists should ensure that the Global Positioning System should become the world's standard satellite navigation system.
The Global Positioning System circuit, several power converters and a set of devices that route commands to various pieces of equipment were switched off.
In an imaginative application of vigilante justice, Acme Rent-a-Car of New Haven, Conn. levies its own fines on speeders (whom it catches with the Global Positioning System).
Still, it was the advent, in the mid-nineties, of the Global Positioning System, along with advances in microcomputing, that ushered in the possibility of automated unmanned flight.
The demo wowed the crowd: The idea is to link tags created by Sekai Camera users and others to items in the real world, using the global positioning system (GPS) location abilities of the iPhone.
But chip makers are having trouble making more precise beams, and the Global Positioning System, which allows people to locate themselves to within a few metres on the surface of the earth, is limited by the performance of its atomic clocks.
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There have been a few anecdotal concerns raised over the last several weeks that LightSquared's proposed LTE network -- which would repurpose L-band spectrum formerly used for satellite -- is too close to the spectrum used by the Global Positioning System, leading to unintentional jamming when the towers overpower the much weaker GPS signals.
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The final constellation of 30 satellites will more than double the spacecraft providing the American Global Positioning System, increasing the accuracy and reliability of navigation and timing signals that can be received across the planet.
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The report calls for accelerating the use of the global positioning satellite system (GPS) in U.S. airspace and ultimately linking GPS and the air traffic control system to provide better and safer separation for planes flying in the United States.
But what starts out as government or military technology often ends up in commercial applications, as packet-switched networks and the global-positioning system demonstrate.
Galileo will work alongside the American Global Positioning System (GPS).
The study, the first of its kind to use the satellite-based global positioning system to provide the animals' locations, involved tagging 14 African elephants with sophisticated radio collars and monitoring their movements for several months.
Apple has used wi-fi location data for years to try to help users pinpiont their location, without having to rely on the satellite-based global positioning system a feature Apple has bragged about in the past.
Games will likely be designed around the phone's global positioning system and Google Maps "My Location" feature, says Webster.
The device, he says, picks up global positioning system (GPS) signals better than the iPhone (even in forests), boasts longer battery life and fits in his backpack without adding much weight or bulk.
It is launched initially by parachute, but as it deploys, the Inertial Navigation System and Global Positioning System take over.
The battery-powered devices, about the size of a videocassette, use Global Positioning System technology to report where a trailer is (Orbital Sciences also owns Magellan, the largest producer of GPS receivers).
While the participants engaged in much discussion there of Iraq, trade and other issues, the most significant result of the meeting may have been an agreement to ensure that Europes Galileo navigation system does not interfere with the frequencies used by Americas Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system .
Dutch thinks the real selling point is Networkcar's global positioning system, which allows owners to locate a stolen vehicle or even monitor the location and performance of the family car using a Web site.
The Glyder Fawr measurements were taken by national park staff who trapped a global positioning system (GPS) antennae to the side of the summit rock.
One of their most valuable tools was a process called "geocoding, " the conversion of street addresses into global positioning system (GPS) coordinates.
We questioned the starry-eyed revenue and expense forecasts for Galileo, a European satellite navigation venture designed to compete with the U.S.' Global Positioning System.
Mr. Catsimatidis has since repeated the idea, coupling it with a proposal to link the emergency response system to global-positioning-system trackers that police would carry to improve response times.
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